COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
31160
File Name:
31160
Call number:
Cabinet Cl754 / 1
Map title:
Nouvelle Carte des Decouvertes faites par des Vaisseaux Russes aux côtes inconnues de l'Amerique Septentrionale Avec les Pais Adiacents ...
Place of Publication:
A St. Petersbourg [St. Petersburg]
Publisher:
a l'Acadmie Imperiale des Sciences
Publication date:
1754
Map size height:
46 cm.
Map size width:
63.9 cm.
Item description:
engraving
Geographical description:
Map on north polar projection of North America and northern Asia showing the routes of voyages of discovery for the Northwest Passage. Cartographic elements include scales and lines of longitude and latitude. The map shows Vitus Bering's two voyages for Russia.
References:
John Carter Brown Library, Annual Report, 1953, p. 29-33; Wroth, L.C. Early cartography of the Pacific, no. 97
Geographic Area:
Polar
Historical notes:
This map was prepared in response to a map published about 1753 by Joseph Nicolas de l'Isle which included the routes taken by Bering but did not mention his name. The map gives credit to Bering and omits the apocryphal discoveries included by Buache of the Spanish Admiral Bartholomé de Fonte who claimed to have discovered a large inland sea in the northwest.This map is attributed to Gerard Fridikh Miller, also known by his German name, Gerhard Friedrich Müller, a geographer in service to Russia, who wrote a pamphlet called Lettre d'un officier de la Marine russienne, Berlin, 1753, to attack de l'Isle's presentation of the map and to give proper credit to Bering.
Normalized date:
1754
Nouvelle Carte des Decouvertes faites par des Vaisseaux Russes aux côtes inconnues de l'Am...
